Chaney v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Morris, Commissioner

Affirming.

Appellant and thirteen others were charged with violation of Kentucky Statutes, Section 1241a-l, banding for the purpose of alarming, disturbing or injuring other persons, eight subjects being named, among them Marvin Wyatt. Upon severance appellant went to trial, and a jury returned a verdict of guilty, inflicting the minimum penalty, and on appeal it is contended that the court erred:(a) In refusing offered instructions which appellant insists constituted his defense;(b) In allowing commonwealth counsel to make reference in argument to…